OpenAI cuts Business price 20%
OpenAI reduced ChatGPT Business pricing by 20% to $20 per seat and introduced pay‑as‑you‑go pricing for Codex, a move presented as encouraging broader enterprise adoption. The company also expanded paid users’ model-picker access and adjusted limits in its release notes. (blockchain.news) (help.openai.com)
OpenAI cut the base price of ChatGPT Business on April 2, dropping standard seats by $5 a month to $20 per user. (help.openai.com) The company said the lower price applies to new and existing ChatGPT Business customers, with monthly subscribers seeing it on their next bill and annual subscribers at renewal. OpenAI also said it would credit the prorated difference on current bills toward the next renewal. (help.openai.com) On the same date, OpenAI added a second seat type for Business workspaces: Codex-only seats priced by usage instead of a fixed monthly fee. A single workspace can now mix standard ChatGPT seats and usage-based Codex seats. (help.openai.com) Codex is OpenAI’s coding product for software teams, built to handle tasks like writing features, refactors, reviews, and releases across developer tools. OpenAI said the new pay-as-you-go option is meant to let companies start with no fixed Codex seat costs and expand as usage grows. (openai.com 1) (openai.com 2) The pricing shift lands as OpenAI keeps separating general workplace chat from engineering-heavy AI use. Its Help Center now describes ChatGPT Business as a plan with fixed-price standard seats and flexible Codex seats, rather than one bundle for every employee. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2) OpenAI paired the change with a temporary adoption push: eligible Business workspaces can earn up to $100 in Codex credits for each newly added Codex seat after that member sends a first Codex message, capped at $500 per workspace. The offer appears in OpenAI’s Business release notes and Codex pricing materials. (help.openai.com) (developers.openai.com) The company also changed how Codex is billed. OpenAI’s rate card says that, as of April 2, Codex pricing for Plus, Pro, ChatGPT Business, and new Enterprise plans moved from per-message charges to API-style token usage pricing. (help.openai.com) Separate release notes show OpenAI has also been reshaping what paid users can access inside ChatGPT. The main ChatGPT changelog, updated in April, lists continuing model-picker and limit changes, including the April 9 launch of GPT-5.3 Instant Mini as a fallback after users hit GPT-5.3 Instant limits. (help.openai.com) For customers, the immediate change is simple: the core Business subscription is cheaper, and coding access no longer has to be bought the same way as chat access. For OpenAI, the April 2 update turns ChatGPT Business into a menu of seat types and usage charges instead of a single per-user package. (help.openai.com 1) (help.openai.com 2)
